Category: Mental health

When “Nothing Will Happen” Isn’t a Safety Plan: Asking About Real Safeguards
updated from February 2026“If your confidence turns out to be misp [...]

Facing Reality: Identity Does Not Erase Patterns of Male Violence
updated from March 11 2025
We can respect individuals while remaining [...]

Rejection in Dating: Why Learning to Accept “No” Is Essential for Healthy Relationships
Dating is not a promise of access. It is a process of discovering mutu [...]

When Giving Up Women’s Rights Is Called Progress: 15 Questions Worth Asking
updated from March 23 2025There is a familiar pattern in [...]

A Woman-Centered Truth About FGM We Cannot Abandon (w/list of resource organizations)
updated from December 13, 2025
FGM victims’ fury as academics com [...]

Please Stop Telling Survivors, “Men Wouldn’t Go That Far.” History Says Otherwise.
updated from March 24 2025 Interesting fact:
Before [...]

You Deserve Safety—Even When You’re Just Trying to Keep Going
Some of us were never told that we deserved to feel safe.W [...]

Juneteenth: Proof That Even Our Freedom Is Seen as “Too Much”
Juneteenth is not just a holiday. It is a mirror [...]

How People Prompt or Lure Women to Prove Their Worth
"Why doesn't she leave? Why did she go back?"
We don't spen [...]

The Fable of the Flame that Would Not Bow: The Importance of Help Seeking Language in Troubled Times
Discouragement is part of the battle. It always has been. But defeatis [...]